Archaeology: Recent submissions
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Authority, Acquisition and Adaptation: Nineteenth century artefacts of personal consumption from the Prisoner Barracks at Port Arthur
Published 2013-01-01Historical archaeology in Australia has countless artefact assemblages awaiting research and analysis. This thesis is the study of one such collection; the artefacts of personal consumption recovered during the first ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Consumption and Convicts: Faunal Analysis from the Port Arthur Prisoner Barracks
Published 2013-01-01This thesis will present a zooarchaeological analysis of the faunal remains excavated from the Port Arthur Prisoner Barracks in 1977. Originally constructed in 1830 following the establishment of the Port Arthur Penal ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Value of the Past: Minoan and Minoanizing Larnakes at the Knossos North Cemetery
Published 2013-01-01The main focus of this thesis is the collection of at least seventeen larnakes or clay coffins found at the Knossos North Cemetery site on Crete. The site was uncovered as a result of one period of salvage excavations in ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
The Celtic Question
Published 2013-01-01The identity of the “Celts” has played an integral role in the understanding of the Iron Age and the more recent socio-political history of Europe. However, the terminology and attitudes which have been in place since the ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Early Japanese Urbanism: A Study of the Urbanism of Proto-historic Japan and Continuities from the Yayoi to the Asuka Periods.
Published 2013-01-01The way in which Japanese archaeologists and historians see their past has created two separate systems of periodization causing many issues for dating certain material of the same age. As a consequence of the retro-projection ...Open AccessThesis, Honours